From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754728AbXEAWsE (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 18:48:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754791AbXEAWsE (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 18:48:04 -0400 Received: from web54405.mail.yahoo.com ([206.190.49.135]:24874 "HELO web54405.mail.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754728AbXEAWsD (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 18:48:03 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 401 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 18:48:02 EDT DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=sajXkDZl3fXFHg8cIbdgOjFMASgaZBZpFn1kwvNC5zTSFs4+aRfh2TQO77PAtrSsEcDl1waFs6XbDe0Y/FXSFVXGkUaFuJseiA3a2FY/ah4qoNsRZ/7uqpdYVWQIyy2ZrWylqY1rwyP4xw9WL3nji1hpR15js5QMG0Xwj5oBvo0=; X-YMail-OSG: _RA_idoVM1m0E0ytSdYHP_HUcCPhBMAu8mFOYansDiSi.FDBlCP3lm499JgXLnYomQdu0L6Z6C.Eqf8lETKy_tKdI0v_JELmnTU1eWfJm1y0Xi2L1jk7DbwCyg6vXxg8efC.SXi3KMqFwUcFKPL.YMArrA-- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 15:41:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Vlad Subject: Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <741290.4122.qm@web54405.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org H. Peter Anvin wrote: > I'm rewriting the i386 setup code in C, instead of assembly, > and before I spend a very large amount of time translating > all the various card-specific probes, I want to ask the > following question... > > Does *anyone* care about these anymore? Yes, booting Linux on old i386/i486 hardware is still very useful for forensic purposes and recovering important data. I've personally had to do this many times, and I'm sure others have as well. Booting is such a critical process that a user would be completely lost as to why it fails, especially if they can't see any output on the screen. I think it would be a shame to prevent Linux from running on these machines. Vlad __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com